Yale University researchers, analyzing hundreds of billions of bits of genetic information, have collated and standardized 2,000 signposts that mark the boundaries of large blocks of human genomic variants.This library of genomic “breakpoints’’ was...
A group of scientists has succeeded in creating the first transistor made from a single molecule. The team, which includes researchers from Yale University and the Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology in South Korea, published their findings in the...
Female ducks have evolved an intriguing way to avoid becoming impregnated by undesirable but aggressive males endowed with large corkscrew-shaped penises: vaginas with clockwise spirals that thwart oppositely spiraled males.More details of this...
The kinds of increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide taking place today could have a significantly larger effect on global temperatures than previously thought, according to a new study led by Yale University geologists. Their findings appear December 20...
Yale University researchers have devised a computer model to explain how the brain makes decisions based on statistical probabilities—as, for instance, when a doctor makes a diagnosis based on several conflicting test results.In a study published online...
A team led by Yale University researchers has used nanosensors to measure cancer biomarkers in whole blood for the first time. Their findings, which appear December 13 in the advanced online publication of Nature Nanotechnology, could dramatically...
Hong Tang, an electrical engineer in the Yale School of Engineering & Applied Science, has earned a spot in Discover magazine’s Top 100 Stories of 2009 — which highlight “the 100 discoveries that are changing the world” — for his discovery of light’s...
In the wake of the University of East Anglia email controversy and the start of the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, there has been even more focus on climate change—and a need to clarify the science behind it—than ever. To help...
If you’ve ever been to Hawaii, you probably spent your time enjoying the scenery of the beautiful islands, rather than wondering how they got to be there in the first place. But that’s just what scientists have been trying to figure out for nearly 40...
Lisa D. Pfefferle, newly named as the C. Baldwin Sawyer Professor of Engineering, is an expert in the areas of combustion kinetics and chemical reaction engineering.Pfefferle’s concentration is in catalytically stabilized hydrocarbon fuels and analyzing...